With barely any domestic production capacity, India is largely reliant on China-made concentrators. While there is a rush to import, the costs are high and hurdles include hazy regulations.
With barely any domestic production capacity, India is largely reliant on China-made concentrators. While there is a rush to import, the costs are high and hurdles include hazy regulations.
Affluent Indians are desperate to buy oxygen concentrators at any cost – but the economy is murky
Most concentrators are being imported from China. Many are virtually useless. 2 hours ago A patient breathes with the help of an oxygen concentrator provided by a gurdwara in Ghaziabad on May 1. | Sajjad Hussain / AFP
She was 53. The family could not find her a bed in any of the hospitals in Delhi where they lived when her oxygen levels plunged on April 26. The next day, they found her one in a private hospital in neighbouring Uttar Pradesh’s Greater Noida. But the hospital had an oxygen shortage – as most facilities in north India at the time.